Foods vivalavida Wants to Try

This ceremonial Mayan brew has evolved into a sweet, smoky spirit in the Chiapas highlands.

This dark, rare fruit lasts a very long time.

Find this rare, savory mango on the periphery of Borneo markets with other odorous fruit.

Fresh fruit is the main feature of this sweet sandwich.

Locals joke that you should be able to “float a horseshoe” on the thick brew.

This coffee additive and killer of trees has a reputation as a medical marvel.

The Catalan green onion has its own festival.

Boil away this plant's poisonous hairs, and you're left with a tasty, spinach-like leaf.

This mushroom tastes just like chicken.

Eating these unpredictable tapas is a game of spicy-pepper roulette.

This Dutch-Indonesian cake contains up to 30 layers.

Beer-brewing monks make aromatic, ale-flavored cheese in the Belgian countryside.

The lychee-looking fruit appears in everything from jam and liqueur to the Aeneid and Madrid's flag.

This summery parfait has mingled with British royals and literary elites.

This jewel-toned Sicilian and Maltese specialty is so sweet, it’s hard to believe it comes from a spiky cactus.

This protected German fruit has its own representative queen.

This hallucinogenic honey can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market.

These condensed-milk sweets come from a picturesque hill town.

This sweet, slender eggplant grows only in a Greek valley.

This rare berry grows only in two Chilean towns.

Costa Rica's iconic ice cream tub contains indescribably addictive cookies.

It's not actually dark, but it is the world's sweetest.

“To die dreaming” tastes like an orange creamsicle.

The Haitian mushroom transforms rice into an inky, earthy delicacy.